CVE-2017-13730

There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-29

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ncurses (Invisible-island)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484284
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.a…
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.a…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13